CI/CD Contracts in Cardiff

CI/CD
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 10 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 19 28 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 9.69% 11.34% 6.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.86% 15.14% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 13
10th Percentile £409 £380 -
25th Percentile £450 £442 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £526 £547 £600
90th Percentile £646 £551 £613
South Wales median daily rate £469 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.54% +2.50% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

CI/CD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 185 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.29% 74.90% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 134 157
10th Percentile £226 £143 £190
25th Percentile £303 £209 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% -2.70% -3.55%
75th Percentile £496 £550 £575
90th Percentile £661 £596 £625
South Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £12.21 - £19.55
25th Percentile - £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -25.72% +31.58%
75th Percentile £17.00 £25.60 £26.25
90th Percentile £24.64 - £32.90
South Wales median hourly rate £15.50 £25.09 £21.00
% change year-on-year -38.22% +19.50% +5.45%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Cardiff

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Cardiff

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Cardiff over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Cardiff

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) WebLogic
2 3 (15.79%) Apache
2 3 (15.79%) JBoss
2 3 (15.79%) nginx
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (15.79%) WebLogic Portal
2 3 (15.79%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
3 6 (31.58%) GitHub
4 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) GCP
5 4 (21.05%) OCI
6 3 (15.79%) OpenShift
7 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (10.53%) Serverless
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
1 4 (21.05%) MySQL
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) Subversion
3 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.26%) CRM Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Middleware Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineering Team Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Software Team Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) .NET
2 4 (21.05%) Middleware
2 4 (21.05%) Spring
2 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Framework
3 3 (15.79%) Entity Framework
3 3 (15.79%) Jest
3 3 (15.79%) Next.js
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (15.79%) React
3 3 (15.79%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) REST
4 2 (10.53%) RESTful
5 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.26%) CSS
5 1 (5.26%) HTML
5 1 (5.26%) JSON
5 1 (5.26%) OAuth
5 1 (5.26%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) VMS
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Microservices
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 6 (31.58%) Code Quality
5 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 5 (26.32%) Unit Testing
6 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (21.05%) Scrum
7 3 (15.79%) API Design
7 3 (15.79%) Case Management
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (15.79%) Integration Testing
7 3 (15.79%) ITIL
7 3 (15.79%) Kanban
7 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (15.79%) SOA
7 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Python
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.79%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
5 2 (10.53%) C#
6 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
6 1 (5.26%) SOQL
6 1 (5.26%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 3 (15.79%) WCAG
3 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) LXC
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce